Yeah, I'm clashing pretty hard with male UK-grime/hiphop-artistes I used to like these days. JME, Kano and of course, my fave punching sack of them all: Sway DaSafo.
Once upon a time I used to rate Sway as a pretty funny rapper, a rapper I liked. Laughed to his lyrics as they were bare jokes. That time is since long gone by now. Post 'F Ur X' with the ever so amazing Stush, Sway lost his sense of good humour and went from a okay rapper to just someone who got signed with Akon's Konvict Musik.
Dunno just how many mails I've gotten regarding his new single 'Mercedes-Benz' by now, of course all full of motor-lingo and I hope this post will end the flood.
'Mercedes-Benz' was released yesterday (via Sway’s own Dcypha Productions-label) and even thou it jumps the bandwagon and is way behind 'Keys To The Bentley' and 'Wearing My Rolex' in sense of time and hype, it's a pretty catchy track, I'm not gonna lie.
"'Mercedes-Benz' is all about the fun side of what I do – hitting the road, travelling from city to city tearing down parties and doing live shows. I wanted to take it back to basics and make something in the style of my original "This Is My Promo"-mixtapes, music where I’m havin a laugh, havin some jokes and people can dance to it, you know".
Yeah, u though u recognized some parts of it? The hypnotically-catchy sax-driven stomp is deployed from The 45 King’s widely sampled classic 'The 900 Number', constructed from a slowed down sample of 70’s belter 'Unwind Yourself' by Marva Whitney which was itself produced by The Godfather Of Soul, James Brown.
Truth be told, if we removed Sway from this the eye candy could run it all by themselves. Sway is just filling the air with... air. Not the Sway I used to rate, far from 'Flo Fashion' and 'Lttle Derek'.
But I wouldn't be surprised if 'Mercedes-Benz' made big moves up them charts, also here's 'The Watcher' from Sway's upcoming mixtape "The Delivery".
 | Sway - 'Mercedes-Benz' YSI | zShare |
| Sway - 'The Watcher' YSI | zShare |
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